In 1936, in the preface to the German version of his General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, John Maynard Keynes suggested that his theories were best suited for a closed totalitarian system. It is also this theory that postulated that it is economically productive for the government to fund one group of workers to dig a hole and another group to fill it.
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